What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.

For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths